Electric battery



(No Modell.) C. J. HIRLIMANN ELECTRIC BATTERY.

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llNrTnn STATES ATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES J. IIIRLIMANN, OF FORT LEE, NEW JERSEY.

ELEGTRIC BATTERY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 554,124, dated February 4, 1896.

Application iiled October 2 5 l S 9 5.

To ctZZ whom t may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES J. I-IIRLL MANN, of Fort Lee, in the county of Bergen and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Electric Batteries, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to electric batteries 5 and the object is to provide a battery in which there is a large surface of the carbon element in a single cell, thereby doubling the capacity of a single cell.

I will describe a battery embodying my invention and then point outthe novel features in the appended claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding` parts in all the figures.

Figure I is a partial elevation and partial section on the line l l of Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a section of one of the elements on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 is a plan view of the battery.

Referring' to the drawings, A designates a jar, of glass or similar material, here shown as substantially rectangular in form, but the shape is not material to my invention. It is provided on two of its opposite inner sides with flanges ci for supporting the carbon'elcment A'.

The carbon element A comprises two cup portions a a2, each adapted to contain a granular exciting material-such, for instance, as peroxide of manganese-and the walls of the cups are provided with slot-open- Serial No. 566,802. (No model.)

ings a3, so that an acidulated liquid in the jar may circulate freely through them. The upper portion of the carbon element A has an outwardly-extended iange d4, adapted to rest on the flanges d and support the element above the bottom of the jar A, as indicated in the drawings. One side of the flange a4 is provided with a notch co5 for the passage of the bindingpost a6 of the zinc element A2, which surrounds the carbon element.

The carbon element A' has two upwardlyextending ears a7, to which line-wires may be attached by means of the usual bindingscrews.

It is obvious that a carbon element of the form shown and described will present a large surface to the action of the exciting medium, and that it will provide, practically, a two-cell battery in one jar, which need not be larger than the ordinary single-cell jar.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The combination with a jar havinginterior iianges, and a zinc element extending around the interior of the jar, of a carbon element comprising two'cup portions having perforated walls, a ange on the upper portion of the carbon element, adapted to rest on the flanges in the jar, and two ears on the carbon element to which line-wires may be connected, substantially as specified.

CHARLES J. HIRLIMANN. lVitnesses JOSEPH WEILL, THOMAS E. GORMAN. 

